visual
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
visual /ˈvɪʒjʊəl, -zj-/
▶adjective relating to seeing or sight. ▶noun a picture, piece of film, or display used to illustrate or accompany something.
– derivatives
visuality noun,
visually adverb.
visuality noun,
visually adverb.
– origin ME (orig. describing a supposed beam proceeding from the eye and making vision possible): from late L. visualis, from L. visus ‘sight’, from videre ‘to see’.
'visual' also found in these Oxford entries:
art
- art history
- audial
- audio-
- audio-visual
- AV
- blindsight
- calculator
- camera
- colouring
- compound eye
- contact lens
- display
- entasis
- entoptic
- eye candy
- fix
- focus
- fovea
- FX
- gauge
- geniculate body
- graph
- graphic
- graphical
- graphical user interface
- graphic arts
- graphics
- iconography
- iconology
- imagery
- Impressionism
- karyotype
- language laboratory
- liquid crystal display
- look-and-say
- motile
- muzzy
- -opia
- otoscope
- performance art
- phosphene
- photographic memory
- plastic arts
- pornography
- quotation
- readout
- retina
- scotoma
- sight
